Principal Law:

Endangered Species Act (ESA)

224 Cases found

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. La.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 03/19/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make a final determination on the proposed listing of the eastern black rail.

Buffalo Field Campaign v. Williams

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment granted and decision remanded to the Fish and Wildlife Service for further review. [ 01/12/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to denial of request for status review of distinct population segment of Yellowstone bison.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: Unopposed joint motion filed to approve stipulated settlement agreement and to dismiss case. [ 03/17/2021 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging federal defendants’ failures to take actions to protect the endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse.

California Natural Resources Agency v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Order issued setting forth interim operations plan. [ 03/14/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to biological opinions for long-term operations of two major water diversion projects in California.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Stipulation filed to modify the settlement agreement. [ 03/30/2017 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make determinations regarding the status of nine species under the Endangered Species Act, including species threatened by climate change.

Cook Inletkeeper v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Alaska
Status: Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part and State of Alaska's cross motion for summary judgment denied. [ 03/30/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to incidental take regulations authorizing take of 11 species of marine mammals in connection with oil and gas exploration and development activities.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2020
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement so ordered. [ 08/20/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging failure to designate critical habitat for distinct population segments of green sea turtles.

Columbia Riverkeeper v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Joint motion to voluntarily dismiss appeals granted. [ 06/16/2021 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Corps of Engineers issuance of a Section 404 permit for a maritime export terminal associated with a proposed methanol facility in Washington on the Columbia River.

WildEarth Guardians v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Unopposed motion to voluntarily dismiss appeal granted. [ 02/01/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to list the Joshua tree as a threatened species.

Save the Bull Trout v. Williams

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Judgment for defendants affirmed on claim preclusion grounds. [ 09/28/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Bull Trout Recovery Plan approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2015.

Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/21/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to Safe Drinking Water Act exemption that would allegedly allow injection of oil and gas wastewater and other fluids in oil field in San Luis Obispo County in California.

Hoopa Valley Tribe v. Ross

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: First amended complaint filed. [ 06/03/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the re-initiation of Section 7 consultation regarding impacts of ocean salmon fisheries on Southern Oregon/Northern California Coastal coho based on new developments and information since 1999, including climate change information.

Sound Rivers, Inc. v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: E.D.N.C.
Status: Joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 09/17/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to highway through Piedmont North Carolina, including for failure to analyze greenhouse gas emissions and climate change and new federal rule "freezing" CAFE standards.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Haw.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement and order filed. [ 02/25/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the designation of critical habitat for 14 species of plants and animals from the island of Hawai‘i that were listed as endangered in 2013.

WildEarth Guardians v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Ariz.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/05/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s decision that listing of the Sonoran desert tortoise under the Endangered Species Act was “not warranted.”

Center for Biological Diversity v. Bernhardt

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: S.D. Fla.
Status: Case dismissed without prejudice. [ 09/27/2019 ]
Description: Challenge to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision not to list the Florida Keys mole skink under the Endangered Species Act.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Ross

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Parties entered into stipulated settlement agreement. [ 02/27/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the designation of critical habitat for threatened coral species.

Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Cal.
Status: Amended order issued granting motion to remand without vacatur. [ 11/16/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to amendments to the Endangered Species Act regulations.